TNB Tech Minute: Microsoft Briefly Dethrones Apple

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: EBay agrees to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after harassment of two critical bloggers. And Amazon missed a deadline to offer remedies to the European Union over its acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.0	Here's your Tn B Tech Minute for Thursday January 11th.
0:32.0	I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.
0:35.0	Microsoft briefly dethroned Apple as the biggest U.S. company by market value.
0:40.0	Microsoft shares ended the day up half a percent, bringing the company's market value to $2.86 trillion.
0:46.5	Microsoft stock has been on the rise for the past year,
0:49.2	thanks to the continued growth of its cloud computing division.
0:52.8	Based on closing prices, Apple has been the biggest company since November 2021.
0:58.2	eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty
1:01.9	after employees engaged in a harassment
1:03.8	campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company
1:06.6	including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant
1:11.5	was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel,
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